Summary: Tomorrow marks the 75th anniversary of the launch by the BBC of the world's first continuous television service. By any standards, a landmark in broadcasting and an event which you'd have thought that any DG would have been only too proud to preside over. When the great day arrived, he decided to give it a miss and, when the first transmission took place, he was nowhere to be seen. - guardian.co.uk

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